Teh "Christian compassion"* strikes again

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A month ago I blogged about a teacher who had come under fire from her principal, after she allowed to run in the school newspaper an editorial written by one of her students calling for tolerance towards gays.

Don’t you love it? A teacher proselytises in his history classroom, in blatant violation of the US constitution: his school board rallies to his defence, and he gets a slap on the wrist. Another teacher mandates tolerance towards homosexuals, in violation of no law or constitutional principle that I can think of, and she gets raked over the coals and thrown to the wolves. (I mean: it’s not as if she was wearing a “Bong Hits For Jesus” t-shirt or anything.)

Ed Brayton “smells a lawsuit coming,” and I hope he’s right. Look at what happened in Dover, Pennsylvania, for instance. Given that the decentralised nature of the US education system makes it so vulnerable to the influence of the medieval brand of Christianity, the judicial branch seems to be one of the only things keeping America clinging so precariously to the sunny side of the Enlightenment. (Until, of course, the medievalists seize control of the judicial branch, too.)

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Mr van Bigot [. . .] It's interesting the new morality of atheists. Commenting off topic is normal to humans. But atheists have such a rigid mind.
Your hypocrisy in accusing me of abuse is too breathtaking for words.
"Epic non sequitur." Your repetition is typical of the atheist misuse of Latin as being a magic language (also an RC delusion). Bless. (novparl, Five Public Opinions)

I’m bored waiting for signs of intelligence on this website. That’s justification enough to ignore it. Go back to your group hug now, and reassure yourselves that you’ve formed your views based on “reason” and not “faith”. (Alan, Five Public Opinions)

Hey, AV’s back. This is the infant who called me a nazi up above. Hi precious, welcome back. How was your kindy nap? Have you had your milk? ("Rebellion")

AV,
eloquence will not persuade me.
you may have a captive audience amongst your peers,but your words are like a clanging cymbal, a rather obnoxious noise after awhile. ("Saved Sinner", OzAtheist)

Cogitating about irrational, self-contradictory and anti-empirical intellectual dogmas such as falliblism does not interest me. Nor am I interested in the bigoted, selective applications of these nonsenses by one such as their zealous, close-minded ideologue. (Paul Robotham, A Churchless Faith)

a religious fundamentalist is by definition someone who is without doubt about their faith position and who spends a great deal of their time and energy promoting their faith by denouncing any person's contrary understandings of the universe.You meet this definition in with out any difficulty (Iain Hall, Malott's Blog)

Arthur reveals a little more of himself with each comment. Soon you’ll be confronted by the whole picture: Arthur uses everyone as a mirror for his own misplaced narcissism. ("Daniel", Old Lines From a Floating Life)